Re: Let's remove some deprecated stuff

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 12:18:42PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> >     ``QEMU_AUDIO_`` environment variables and ``-audio-help`` (since 4.0)
> >     Creating sound card devices and vnc without ``audiodev=`` property 
> > (since 4.2)
> >     Creating sound card devices using ``-soundhw`` (since 5.1)
> 
> I think these three should be dropped together, to minimize disruption.
> 
> Where do we strand in terms of libvirt support?  IIRC audiodev= support
> in libvirt is rather recent (merged this year).  I'd tend to wait a bit
> longer because of that.
> 
> Daniel?

Libvirt added supoort for -audio in 7.2.0, release April 4th, so only
one month ago.

If we drop the features in QEMU in this dev cycle though, this won't
impact most users until QEMU 6.1 releases in mid August. I'm perfectly
ok with people who use unreleased QEMU git master needing to update
their libvirt. The final release date is far enough away that distros
will have had new enough libvirt for a good while.


Regards,
Daniel
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